2. Jon Snow: The King of the North’s priorities toward defeating the White Walkers seem to be in the right place. Sansa Stark warns Jon that he doesn’t want to make the same fatal mistakes as Rob or Ned Stark.

A plotline worth following is how Petyr Baleish aka Little Finger will attempt to manipulate Sansa into undermining Jon. Viewers could already see how Jon and Sansa disagreed on what to do with the castles belonging House Umber and Karstark, two houses that had been loyal to Ramsay Bolton.

The Vale did come to Jon Snow’s rescue in the Battle of the Bastards, but Little Finger’s ulterior motivation appears like it is to romance Sansa.

Jon Snow must balance preparations to fend off the White Walkers while deciding whether to kneel to Queen Cersei.

3. Cersei Lannister: For the longest time, Cersei seemed to play chess while everyone else in Westeros played checkers.

While Cersei is not multiple chess moves ahead anymore, she is aware of the predicament ahead of House Lannister and its lack of reliable allies. Enter crazy pirate Uncle Euron Greyjoy.

I can’t wait to see how Cersei exploits Euron for his ships while simultaneously making Jamie Lannister jealous.

5. Pirate Uncle (Euron) Greyjoy: The crazy pirate uncle is easily the most entertaining and compelling of the Greyjoy clan.

Euron is delightfully obnoxious (he has two good hands!).

One of this season’s underrated subplots will be the distrust between Jamie Lannister and Euron.

I can’t imagine how entertaining it’ll be when Euron discovers Jamie is not only Cersai’s brother, but also her lover.

It is also of intrigue what kind of gift he will present Queen Cersai in the coming episodes. Could Euron attempt to bring back Tyrion Lannister’s head? What would be even better is if Euron pretended to bring back Tyrion’s carcass and it wasn’t actually Tyrion’s body. It would be a total Greyjoy move.

6. Giant White Walkers: Apparently, the Night King is also able to bring giants back from the dead and add them to his army.

Wun Weg Wun Dar Wun is now a White Walker. He’s the giant who initially fought with the Wildlings and then for Jon Snow in the Battle of the Bastards.

The giant has switched allegiances so many times, he makes Benedict Arnold seem loyal.

7. Samwell Tarly: Poor Samwell seems as if he’s going through the motions cleaning up after old men at the Citadel in Old Town.

One person in the entire Citadel even believes Sam that White Walkers exist.

Will Sam face repercussions for stealing books from the restricted area of the library, where all the important White Walker secrets are kept?

Sam and Jon Snow might be the only ones who realize the importance of dragon glass at this point.

8. Sandor Clegane aka The Hound: How ironic is it that the character mortified by fire is traveling with a bunch of fire worshippers? Poor sap…

Plus, the group made camp inside a home with the two skeletons of its previous occupants.

The Hound provided some insight by questioning Beric Dondarrion on why the Lord of Light continues to bring him back from the dead.

The Hound saw a vision in the fire at the abandoned home White Walkers domination. He later made the smart decision to bury the two skeletons (two less soldiers for the White Walkers).

9. Jorah Mormount

10. Jorah’s arm: Khaleesi’s former right-hand man is turning to stone. Viewers didn’t even get a chance to see Jorah’s face in the Sunday night’s premiere. We’ll see if he’s able to find a cure for the disease.